The best summary so far
theintercept.com/2021/09/23/cor…
[except for the story about the Sky News Documentary - I checked by watching it and did not see a mention of DEFUSE. The documentary must have been in the can long before anyway].
@maiahibbett @fastlerner
theintercept.com/2021/09/23/cor…
[except for the story about the Sky News Documentary - I checked by watching it and did not see a mention of DEFUSE. The documentary must have been in the can long before anyway].
@maiahibbett @fastlerner
The paradigm has now shifted - and once scientists have digested it they shall start coming together to express their concerns. That's what responsible science should be.
Martin Wikelski, a director at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany:
@animaltracking
Martin Wikelski, a director at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany:
@animaltracking
“The work describes generating full-length bat SARS-related coronaviruses that are thought to pose a risk of human spillover. And that’s the type of work that people could plausibly postulate could have led to a lab-associated origin of SARS-CoV-2,” said Jesse Bloom, @jbloom_lab
“We now have evidence that, in early 2018, they had pitched inserting novel cleavage sites into novel SARS-related viruses in their lab,” said Chan. “This definitely tips the scales for me. And I think it should do that for many other scientists too.” @Ayjchan
We already had the mother of all conflicts of interest with Peter Daszak - something that nobody would deny today.
Silence is no option. If questions should be raised after reading the DEFUSE proposal, then they need to be raised.
Silence is no option. If questions should be raised after reading the DEFUSE proposal, then they need to be raised.
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